About
Hi, I'm Sydney.
FOUNDER & CO-CONSULTANT
Hi, I'm Janessa.
CO-CONSULTANT
Hailing from Simon Fraser University with a degree in Psychology, I was fortunate enough to witness early in my academic career the value of research and its many and varied applications in both the public and private sector. While pursuing my education, my first foray into research was alongside a prominent team of physicians in the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia. I helped get off the ground a pan-Canadian, Health Canada funded mixed methods study on mental and substance use disorders (the largest of its kind in the world), and eventually designed my own thesis nested under this project. Here, I examined circadian sleep phase shifts in in-patients with schizophrenia type II and co-occurring opioid and stimulant use disorders (I know. Fancy, neuroscience jargon).
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Since the early days of my research career, I've grown a diverse client portfolio through grassroots connections in areas of both the public and private sector. Now, I leverage the expertise I gained in my education with what I've acquired through practical experience. A robust background in statistics and coding, data wrangling and cleaning, systematic literature reviewing, and foundational research design are the building blocks I've relied on to assist my clients and develop a new roster of services that I now offer, from grant writing to stakeholder engagement to knowledge translation, mobilization and exchange (KTEM) to evaluations and logic modelling.
After completing my PhD in Medical Science at the University of Toronto, I’ve spent my career in the middle of the space where research, policy, and implementation meet. I led a national study on vaccine hesitancy in Canada that gained significant national and international media attention. But for me, the research was only half the job. I went on to mobilize those findings by creating a Canada-wide initiative to support vaccine uptake—an effort that was recognized by the Prime Minister of Canada and Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer. (Yes, that still feels a little surreal.)
This work led me to a postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell Tech, where I became increasingly interested in applied, systems-level approaches to public health and innovation—work that doesn’t just ask what we know, but how that knowledge actually gets used.
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As a consultant, I bring a practical, implementation-minded approach to research design, stakeholder engagement, and knowledge mobilization. I love working with partners who want evidence that doesn’t just sit on a shelf, but actively shapes decisions, programs, and systems.​ Alongside my consulting work, I hold an adjunct appointment in the Faculty of Health Information Science at the University of Victoria. Across every sector I work in, I focus on making research usable—clear, relevant, and responsive to the realities organizations are actually working within.
